Heretic - Call of the Apostate

This is a LOT of fun. Weird that people complain it's hard, i played it on black plague and it was fairly tame. The levels are pretty simplistic in geometry but are absolutely gorgeous. Enemy placement is pretty varied all throughout, the levels don't feel repetitive and for the most part are pretty open.

If you haven't played it yet, i highly recommend this, whether you've played much Heretic or not, and even as an entry point if you haven't played Heretic yet.

Medium quality WAD, notable mainly for it's hardcore features. I came across it while testing modifications, so I will briefly describe it.

Settings and other:

* GZDoom.

* Passed in combination with Heretical Doom. It goes well.

* Difficulty - "magister" (analogous to "Ultra-Violence" from Doom).

* Some secrets.

* 9 moderately compact levels and few (on average within 150) monsters.

* Metal heads and minotaurs, which were relatively rare in the original and especially were mini-bosses, can be found here regularly and not in single quantities.

* There will be a sequential fight with two bosses at the end, but both, in comparison with the original Heretic and groups of enemies at normal levels, do not pose much of a danger.

* 100% of secrets found.

Pros:

+ E3M5 - Castle of Sorrow. Not a bad level with 148 opponents. At the end, a battle with 6 minotaurs awaits. On the same map, I abandoned testing HeXeReTiC Fantasy earlier - it is hardly passable and the excessive randomness of it became completely clear.

+ E3M6 - The Unholy Font. "water" map.

Contras:

? On the map E3M9 - Forgotten Chapel you can pick up 1 secret only with wings and another one, apparently, is bugged, which is why you cannot pick up a weapon and kill 1 enemy.